Samor, the younger brother of Sahehan, the new Chanyu of the Northern Xiongnu, knew...
My brother is a heartless person who doesn't care about his own family!
He had just assumed the position of Chanyu when he deposed his first wife and married a new one...
He even imprisoned the child born to his first wife in "Isabur City," keeping him alive but not trusting him.
Instead, he wants to marry a new wife and have new children with her!
All his actions demonstrate that this guy is sufficiently perverted and cruel...
Sammer knew in his heart that if he led these 3,000 Northern Xiongnu soldiers back to their camp, his own brother would definitely not let him go.
Therefore, he was determined to fight to the death!
Meanwhile, Zhao Yong, the commander of the Zhao state, was also a hothead!
If at this point he had adopted a policy of appeasement, trying to persuade Samo'er to surrender, saying, "Stop fighting! You have already shown your bravery. Why not surrender to Prime Minister Jiang? He is also the Chanyu of your Xiongnu people. The Northern and Southern Xiongnu are one family. Let's stop killing each other..."
If you appeal to their emotions and reason with them, you can actually persuade this formidable team to surrender.
But Zhao Yong had no such intention...
This young commander had repeatedly studied the deeds of Jiang Ming and his troops, including their annihilation of the Xiongnu, the massacre of the Rouran, and the washing of the land with the blood of the nomadic people...
He had only a strong fighting spirit against the Hu people and no intention of surrendering them!
Even if Sa Mo'er were to surrender at this point, Zhao Yong might not be able to agree!
And so, the second wave of fierce fighting began!
The two armies began another charge and clash!
3,000 people versus 25,000 people!
Weapons clashed, horses neighed and screamed, and shouts of battle rose to the sky!
As the old saying goes, "When you're in a desperate situation, you have to be prepared to survive!"
These 3,000 Northern Xiongnu warriors displayed an incredible fighting spirit...
Some men, even after being cut off from their horses, would still desperately stare at the horse's legs with their knives until their skulls were trampled and crushed by the warhorse, their brains splattering everywhere!
And the blood had already stained this land red!
Having learned from the first wave of attacks, the Zhao soldiers were now more familiar with the Northern Xiongnu's fighting style and began to adapt flexibly to their moves!
This is a contest that belongs only to true men!
The two sides were truly evenly matched!
Despite being outnumbered, the Northern Xiongnu managed to win a second wave of battles.
There are still seven or eight hundred people left.
Meanwhile, another four or five thousand of Zhao's cavalrymen fell in pools of blood...
Although the casualty ratio has decreased and is not as exaggerated as the initial 1:3, it still adds another layer of psychological shadow to Zhao Jun's mind: These barbarians of the Northern Xiongnu are really damn hard to fight.
They were only wearing leather armor and their weapons didn't seem to be superior, so why were they so strong in combat?
One can imagine that if the soldiers of Zhao were also wearing leather armor like the soldiers of the Northern Xiongnu, and they were to fight each other head-on, the casualty ratio would be even higher!
The enemy only had seven or eight hundred men left, many of them seriously wounded, some even had their arms chopped off...
But the Northern Xiongnu warriors seemed to still be in high spirits, each one of them determined to die for their cause!
Their aura made Zhao Yong feel a little intimidated...
He even developed a kind of 'crisis illusion': he was very afraid that after launching a third charge, the Northern Xiongnu reinforcements would arrive immediately and wipe out all 20,000 of his Zhao soldiers!
However, before Zhao Yong could give the order to launch the third wave of attack.
The seven or eight hundred remaining soldiers of the Northern Xiongnu, shouting and yelling, launched their final three charges against Zhao Yong!
This time, it was the decisive battle. Zhao Yong ordered that they be killed without exception!
The Zhao soldiers charged forward again and engaged the Northern Xiongnu in fierce combat!
It was already dusk, and perhaps even the heavens were moved by the men's ferocity, for streaks of blood-red clouds appeared on the horizon...
Although fighting is different from brawling, there are still some similarities.
For example, if two people are fighting one person, and the other person is thinking of exchanging their life for the other's, it is very likely that one of the two people will die!
If three people are fighting one, a similar situation will occur, but the probability of losing a life will be lower... or it may result in serious injury.
But if it's 5 or 6 people against 1 person!
So at most, one of our side suffered a minor injury.
If ten people are fighting one, it's practically a one-sided fight; the lone one... won't even have a chance to fight back!
In other words, if you can achieve an absolute numerical advantage in a localized area, you can wipe out the enemy with almost no casualties!
In Jiang Ming's previous life, Bai Qi, the god of war during the Warring States period, fought in this way!
He was the pinnacle of ancient annihilation warfare.
Annihilation warfare was the most difficult type of warfare to achieve in ancient battles, unless one had an overwhelming numerical advantage in numbers to completely annihilate the enemy!
But Bai Qi was very different; his annihilation battles were always fought with fewer troops against more!
The core principle is to divide the opponent into countless small segments, and then create an absolute numerical advantage in those local areas.
The effect is... equivalent to 10 people attacking 2 people without suffering any losses, and then continuously replicating the attack...
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